From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@wil.cx>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock()
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:56:53 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807300956.55445.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080729092102.14e6d964.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 02:21:02 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:01:17 +1000 Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Andrew suggested introducing "down_try" as a wrapper now, to make
> > the transition easier.
>
> Hi Rusty,
>
> Will you also be making updates to
> Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl ?
Hi Randy,
The section on sems has been removed in the latest Linus tree. We're
trying to bury semaphores, but it's not clear that will ever happen; hence
this bet-hedging patch.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 0:15 [PATCH] Introduce down_try() so we can move away from down_trylock() Rusty Russell
2008-07-29 0:27 ` Paul Menage
2008-07-29 13:01 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-29 16:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-29 23:56 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-08-01 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 17:40 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-03 8:33 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-03 13:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-03 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-03 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 3:28 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-04 5:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 7:57 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-04 8:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-04 11:43 ` Rusty Russell
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